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The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University is pleased to
announce its sixteenth annual Graduate Conference:
Law and Legal Culture in the Middle Ages
4 April 2009
Scheide-Caldwell House, Princeton University
free and open to the public
9:30-11:00 -- Keynote address
"Rereading the Motel: Law as Literature in Medieval Wales"
Robin Stacey, Professor of History at the University of Washington
11:15-1:00 -- The Reading and Writing of Law
chaired by Michelle Garceau, Department of History
"The Burden of Proof: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal and the Polygraph"
Maria Sequeira Mendes, University of Lisbon
"Wulfstan of York, the Canons of Edgar, and Excerptiones
pseudo-Ecgberhti: Sources and Authorship"
Michael D. Elliot, University of Toronto
"Transmission of Legal Knowledge by 'False Impression': The Practice
of Tadlis in the Transmission of Muslim Hadith"
Amr Osman, Princeton University
2:00-3:15 -- Communities of Law
chaired by Intisar A. Rabb, Department of Near Eastern Studies
"A Kingdom Invented: Royal Power and the Law in Medieval Portugal"
André Vitória, University of Porto
"'A Community of Their Own': Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Anglo-Jewish Law and the Continental Tosafist Community"
Ethan Zadoff, CUNY Graduate Center
3:30-4:45 -- Generic Flexibility of Law
chaired by Moulie Vidas, Department of Religion
"Legal Adaptability amidst Legal Continuity: The Peira as Evidence
for the Vitality of Eleventh-Century Byzantine Law"
Zachary Chitwood, Princeton University
"Margery Kempe, Barrister?"
Andrea F. Jones, University of California at Los Angeles
For further information, please contact Jamie Kreiner (
[email protected])
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